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Hello guys, I got a big problem with my linux mint 4.0. I got an HP dv9541, intel centrino duo T5450, nvidia 8400M GS, 1 giga memory. I run dual boot from an external usb hard drive (curious thing, vista can't even find it after I installed linux on it).When I boot, even when it was running from the liveCD (now installed), it gave me an error message "failure to allocate mem" then some numbers. It then works properly, but after 1-2 hours or so graphics start to slow down, the touchpad doesn't respond very sharply and then crushes completely, can't even reboot before it cools down a bit. I can tell there 's a connection between overheating and slowing down, since windows vista doesn't behave this way (it's much slower from the begging and remains such-damn it-but does not warm up).

How can I get it fixed, since I like linux, and if possible I would'n go back to vista. Thank you very much, keep up the good work.

I have a HP dvsomething with same graphics, but a different processor (AMD Athlon 64 X2), and I have noticed that the touchpad deactivating feature could be a bit buggy on debian based distro's, and the nv driver isn't all that stable with that card. Other than that I have never experienced anything similar to that, do you have the proprietary nVidia drivers enabled (envy)?

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MagnusB wrote:I have a HP dvsomething with same graphics, but a different processor (AMD Athlon 64 X2), and I have noticed that the touchpad deactivating feature could be a bit buggy on debian based distro's, and the nv driver isn't all that stable with that card. Other than that I have never experienced anything similar to that, do you have the proprietary nVidia drivers enabled (envy)?

I 'm such a newbie... You were right, nvidia drivers weren't enabled. I got them right this time (at least I hope). I can still feel the machine pumping out some heat - much less than before, but got no slow-downs and the touch pad works fine so far!